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Humanitarian Victims or Christian Martyrs: What’s in a Word?

By Donald Heinz

…he meaning of the Greek word martyr) of blood. Surely there are some still today? Identifying them, however, is a politically fraught task, even for Christians. The last pope was not at all enthusiastic about joining the throngs who recognized Bishop Oscar Romero as a Latin American Christian martyr. It smelled too much of liberation theology to John Paul II. And it took the German people several decades after World War II before they could get us…

Does Religion Justify the Murder of Troy Davis? [Updated]

By Jay Michaelson

…eligious traditions. There are bloody, vindictive religious traditions (as today’s not-so-new atheists insist on reminding us), and there are those which soften the human tendency toward vengeance and violence. Religion does not have the answer, because it has all the answers, the right and the wrong. Religion is less a glossary of terms (justice means this, righteousness that) than a grammar, a framework for moral reasoning. It is a language in w…

Religion as a Front for Tyranny: A Roundtable on the Timeliness of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

By Anita Little

…s that would challenge the established order and give women more power and freedom, women gained the “freedom” to dress more daringly and drink and have sex like men. We’ve seen a dramatic increase in the ability to talk publicly about sex and recognize different ways of being in terms of sex and gender since the mid-1980s. But at the same time, there’s been a kind of creeping authoritarianism that has inserted the state into almost every decision…

Martin Luther King: Libertarian and Anti-Abortion Social Conservative

By Paul Harvey

…f anyone’s dreams. “Regardless your politics, your opinions, take a moment today to reflect on the meaning of having a dream and fulfilling it.” A message conveniently timed for the opening of the new season of American Idol. But if the local libertarian right threw up its hands this year, the anti-abortion right continues to draft King into their cause. The Rocky Mountains March 4 Life celebrated King Day by marching to the former home of Planned…

Debt Peonage Update: Making Home Unaffordable

By Peter Laarman

…nd legal services. Goodman illustrates the scandal in a sidebar about an African American borrower in Los Angeles who actually went out himself and brought three qualified buyers to his lender, Bank of America. The bank preferred to block the sales and keep the bad loan alive in order to be able to extract more fees. It bears noting that Bank of America, a huge recipient of bailout dollars, has been running splashy full-page ads in newspapers acro…

How Evangelicalism’s Twin Seeds of Biblical Literalism and Constitutional Originalism Spelled the End of Roe

By Austin Lee Steelman

…rk Noll and George Marsden when they disputed his simplistic account of America’s Christian founding. Nor was Schaeffer prepared to accept America’s descent toward dystopia. He partnered with Jerry Falwell and his Moral Majority to help elect Ronald Reagan in 1980 as the Evangelical Right became a political juggernaut. Schaeffer considered the Reagan administration a window in which to roll back the changes of the previous fifty years. Attorney Ge…

Pro-Gay Christians Breaking Out

By Peter Montgomery

…on of Christian ethics is subject to change, based on analysis of the historical context into which the biblical writers were speaking at the time, and separating historical context from timeless moral principles, such as the injunction to “love your neighbour as yourself”… In the essay Rudd credits his re-thinking to a conversation with a respected former political staffer, a Pentecostal Christian, who came out to him and told him that he’d like…

The Americans Season Finale: Teach Your Parents Well

By Cathleen Falsani

…ut their lives by taking her on a field trip to an impoverished, largely African-American neighborhood where her dead lover, Gregory, used to live, Paige confronts her parents. “I’ve felt it for a long time now, and I thought it was me. I thought I was crazy,” Paige says as the trio is seated around the kitchen table. “But it’s not me. It’s you. And I talked to Pastor Tim, and he agrees. I need to know the truth. I don’t care what it is, but if yo…

With Christian Schools At Risk In Israel, Crickets from American Christian Conservatives

By Sarah Posner

…tuation “a ‘death sentence’ for Christian schools in Israel.” Given the American Christian right’s interest in religious freedom, particularly for Christians, and particularly in the Middle East, where Christians are enduring and fleeing persecution, one might expect a massive outcry over this. Just imagine the objections to unequal treatment, by any government, of any Christian organization. But when I reached out to three major conservative Chri…

A Neoconservative Jesus, Certified Kosher

By Ira Chernus

…end to the folly of war. …All of us should live by his example. …Every American soldier in Afghanistan… can consider himself or herself a redeemer chosen to give women dignity and people freedom.” Yet it is “not man’s arms… but man’s attachment to a just and benevolent Creator” that brings victory. To be a redeemer is, apparently, to go to war without placing real value on war—to be a Jew or a good Christian, not a Roman or an “Islamist terrorist…